Then last night it was time for the last Truffaut disc in my collection, The Bride Wore Black. I hadn't seen it since first getting the Twilight Time Blu-ray, however long ago that was. At least a decade? But somehow I had missed EVER seeing it back in the day, so I had only seen it that one time prior to last night. I find that incredible, when I had "known" or known of it since not long after it had been made. But what I really knew all those years was Bernard Herrmann's music.
When I watched it that one time a decade ago, I liked it, but I didn't love it like I do now. I think it's stupendous, everything about it, and the Herrmann score is fantastic. After watching, I checked out the first five minutes of commentary - again, Nick & Julie, thank God, along with Herrmann's biographer Steven Smith - and found right off the bat that there had been some surprising disagreements between Truffaut, the cinematographer whose name I'm blanking on, and Herrmann, as far as how the final film came out. I thought it came out wonderfully in all respects, but again I look forward to hearing these people's knowledge and thoughts on all of it.
The only other Truffaut disc I own that I haven't watched in this li'l retrospective is Fahrenheit 451 which I'm so familiar with I won't watch it again right now. I'm missing just a few well-known films of his - The Last Metro is one - and since I'm just watching my own physical media this time around, I will catch up with those later.
